Results 51 to 60 of about 2,897 (125)

Origins and impact of the welfare state, 1883-1983

open access: yesPSL Quarterly Review, 2013
The article is concerned with the large and continuous growth of “welfare state” expenditures. It analyses the reasons for the emergence of the welfare state and its impact on economic growth. The work is intended as a diagnosis of this growth since 1883,
A. MADDISON
doaj   +1 more source

Global SDG composite indicator: A new methodological proposal that combines compensatory and non‐compensatory aggregations

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2025.
Abstract This paper presents a Global Sustainable Development Goals Composite Indicator to assess the grade in the achieving of targets associated with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved in the 2030 Agenda. Based on a critical analysis of the SDG Index, we propose a new aggregation methodology that combines compensatory and non ...
Francisco Javier Blancas   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The common good from an economic perspective: Insights from EU policies during the COVID-19

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management and Economics
This paper delves into the diverse conceptualizations of the “common good” within the economic discourse and scrutinizes their implications for European integration during the pressing COVID-19 pandemic.
Szypulewska-Porczyńska Alina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Evolution of Welfare Systems: Social Democratic and Social Autocratic Paths

open access: yesCompetitio, 2009
Students of global and regional political economy have produced a vast literature on divergent paths of capitalist evolution. The evolution of welfare systems, in general, and their different paths, in particular, have also widely been analysed in ...
Imre Lévai
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming Experts: Life Changes, Adaptation, and Learning of Stroke Survivors’ Informal Caregivers

open access: yesHealth &Social Care in the Community, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Background: Social and health trends (e.g., the aging population and growth of chronic diseases) place stroke and informal care as global concerns. After a stroke, most survivors return home relying primarily on informal caregivers, who ensure essential daily support.
Ana Moura   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic transparency and poverty

open access: yesPSL Quarterly Review, 2012
Nowadays, with the diffusion of inflation targeting, the main instrument that central banks use to achieve final objectives in the implementation of monetary policy (concerning inflation and unemployment) is the interest rate.
Helder Ferreira De Mendonça   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Surgically Treated Infective Endocarditis in Intravenous Drug Users: A Retrospective Analysis of Patient Characteristics and Survival Between 1998 and 2018

open access: yesJournal of Cardiac Surgery, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Background Infective endocarditis (IE) is an increasingly more common disease with poor prognosis. Recently, a few single‐center studies about IE patient characteristics and surgical outcomes have been published from the capital area in Southern Finland.
Karri Parkkila   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pobreza y enfoque de capacidades: un caso de estudio en el programa de superación de la pobreza extrema en Medellín, Colombia

open access: yesEntramado, 2017
El artículo centra su atención en el enfoque de las capacidades y desarrollo humano. Postura teórica y metodológica para analizar la vida de personas que participan del programa de superación de la pobreza extrema de la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia.
Guberney Muñetón-Santa   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prospering through Prospera: A dynamic model of CCT impacts on educational attainment and achievement in Mexico

open access: yesQuantitative Economics, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 133-183, January 2025.
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model, which integrates value‐added and school‐choice models, to evaluate grade‐by‐grade and cumulative impacts of the Mexican Prospera conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on educational achievement.
Jere R. Behrman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Na2.9KMo12S14: a novel quaternary reduced molybdenum sulfide containing Mo12 clusters with a channel structure

open access: yesActa Crystallographica Section E, 2013
The crystal structure of trisodium potassium dodecamolybdenum tetradecasulfide, Na2.9 (2)KMo12S14, consists of Mo12S14S6 cluster units interconnected through interunit Mo—S bonds and delimiting channels in which the Na+ cations are disordered.
Patrick Gougeon   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy